Lunch in Paris

Food Porn: ** Educational: * Entertain: **** Overall: *** Style: Romantic Biography This book by American journalist Elizabeth Bard recounts the story of her love affair with Paris set in parallel with her budding love for Gwendal a quirky Frenchman. Elizabeth is a student of art and a writer who has spent most of her…

Kitchen Confidential

Food Porn: * Educational: * Entertain: **** Overall: **** Style: Biography This book has been reviewed countless times since it came out in 2008. It is one of the books if not THE book that started the trend of biographies related to food, chefs and professional kitchens.  Amazon shows, as of this writing, 3445 reviews…

Delancey

Food Porn: ** Educational: ** Entertaining: *** Overall: *** I was brought to this book via a well known blog that was popular a few years ago. Orangette was written by Molly one of the pioneers of food blogging. I won’t review the blog here but will say that it was entertaining enough to make…

The story of sushi…

Food Porn: ***Educational: ****Entertain: ****Overall:****   I am struggling with describing this book. It is on the one hand an easy read. The book follows Kate and her class mates attending the sushi academy’s intensive 12 weeks class serving to help divide the book into 8 chapters. On the other hand, with many descriptions of…

I scream, you scream, we all scream…

    For The Perfect Scoop, which was this summers book . I got a kitchen aid ice cream maker so what choice did I have but to find a good ice cream recipe book. I already knew and liked David Lebovitz‘s blog and the book was well reviewed so amazon got a bit more…